Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 29, 2023

He was a Beverly Hillbillies fan.

In the book The Art of Richard Thompson, there is a section devoted to caricatures by Thompson. One of the best of these is of Beethoven. He was obviously important to Mr. Thompson.

You can sing this to the Beverly Hillbillies theme too

I have one of those ugly Beethoven busts. When they were younger, one of our daughters asked, “Daddy, why is he so mad?”, “That’s Beethoven, he’s always mad.” “Why?” “Later.”

I like that there’s apparently a German word “KleinBeethovenkopfboutique”.

Schroeder has a closet full of those statuettes

I sang it to the “Ode to Joy”! It works.

And, yeah, Little Louie got cheated out of his Ugly Bust royalties….